Re: Epochs in filenames

[Mariusz Mazur <mmazur kernel pl>]

On środa 11 sierpień 2004 01:53, James Olin Oden wrote:
> Because, typically, epoch is used to deal with radical changes to versions
> such that there would be no sane way to determine generically from the
> version that this package should upgrade another package.  That said, if
> you used a different epoch per distro then you would have to have a
> different epoch per distro per major version format change.  Other than
> that using to deliniate the distro would not give you what you wanted.
> Say RedHat had epoch 0, Fedora had epoch 1 and Suse epoch 2, then that
> would mean that a RedHat package would always win, but if you were on a
> Fedora or Suse system that is probably not what you want.

I didn't know that inter-distro compatibility is an issue. Could someone that 
uses packages from various distributions tell me if it gives any major 
headaches?


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